Bloger or blogersha: Russian feminitives with the suffix -sh(a) in the modern media space

R.R. Guzaerova

Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008 Russia

E-mail: rguzaerova@gmail.com

Received June 10, 2019

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2019.5-6.105-116

For citation: Guzaerova R.R. Bloger or blogersha: Russian feminitives with the suffix -sh(a) in the modern media space. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2019, vol. 161, no. 5–6, pp. 105–116. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2019.5-6.105-116. (In Russian)

Abstract

Personal feminine nouns with the suffix -sh(a) functioning in the modern Russian language were analyzed. The word-formation model with the suffix -sh(a) is one of the means of expression the word-formation category of femininity, singled out on the basis of a common derivational value 'a female, belonging to the category of persons, called the motivating noun'. The relevance of the study is determined by the increasing importance of female nominations as an object of linguistic research, as well as their activity in the modern Russian media space.

The language material for our research includes 166 lexemes, all selected by the method of continuous sampling from authoritative explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language and the Russian-speaking media space. The analysis of the functioning of personal feminine nouns in the language was carried out on the basis of the material collected using the RNC (Russian National Corpus), media data, and personal blogs on the Internet. The study was performed to describe the features of the formation and functioning of derived nominations of females in modern Russian.

The study was based on: a) an integrated approach to the analysis of derived units; b) analysis of the derivational structure and motivational relationships; c) determination of the specifics of the functioning of the studied units in speech.

The paper considers the development trends in the field of personal feminine nouns. The lexical-semantic composition of a word-formation type with the suffix -sh(a) was defined, special emphasis was placed on the stylistic characteristics of these language units. An attempt was made to substantiate the occurrence of multicomponent chains of synonymous feminitives. Based on the results of the study, conclusions were drawn about the word-formation potential of personal feminine nouns with the suffix  -sh(a) and the prospects for their functioning in the modern Russian language.

Keywords: femininity, word formation, feminitive, suffix, word-formation type

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